XIV – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: Present-Day Political Models and the Creation of Destitution (Chapter XIV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 153 – “There is no intellectual, not even a liberal intellectual, who will be able to deny the evidence that it is possible to put an… Read More
Categoria: Marxism: its Problems
Democracy in Its Present Form Is Irrational and Leads to Endless Confusion
“Clairvoyance enables us to examine a much longer section of the earth’s past history than can be reached along ordinary lines; and this fuller study of the past makes it possible to some extent to forecast by analogy some of the steps in the more immediate future. From such a study of the records it… Read More
Organizational Model (Political etc.) Requires Coherence with Human Capabilities, or Not Worthy of Defense
Professor C.B. Macpherson of the University of Toronto in Canada – in his well-known work The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy – refers as follows to the importance of these assumptions about human beings when considering political systems: “To show that a model of a political system or society, existing or not yet existing,… Read More
Good and Bad Government Depend on Leaders
“Good and bad government depend on the leaders. Positions are to be entrusted, not to the prince’s favorites, but only to capable men. Functions must be entrusted, not to vicious men, but to men eminent for their virtues and talents.” (Chu-King, VIII, II, 5; emphasis added) “The superior man thinks of his character; the inferior… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (13): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – Faults of the Present Political Models
XIII – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: Faults of the Current Political Models (Chapter XIII of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 140 – “The Ideal is that the best should rule; but how to find them, that is the problem. Every one of us who studies must try to… Read More
Good Universal Principles Are Sadly Missing in Politics: Disastrously Notorious Thing
“Because politics are the engine by which social reforms are finally brought about, and in the sphere of government, as crucially as in the departments of economics and social reforms, guiding universal principles are as sadly lacking, and the effects of that lack still more disastrously apparent. Still more so, because Government is the final… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (12): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – Premises and Central Institutions of Marxism
XII – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: The Premises and Central Institutions of Marxism (Chapter XII of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 139 – “Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by shouting of crowds, nor by the… Read More
Beginnings of Modern Egalitarianism in Bobbio’s “Dictionary of Politics”
This leveling – in other words, this premise which affirms the existence of equality or, at least, a great similarity in the psychological evolutionary and moral level of all human beings – is a central point not only of Liberalism but also, although on a different level and along different paths, of Marxism, as we… Read More
Faith in Religious Tenets Was Eroded by the Advancement of Scientific Knowledge
“Faith in religious tenets and commandments was eroded more than a century ago by the advent of modern education based on logic and reason and the advancement of scientific knowledge. (…) The homocentricity of Biblical Christianity was replaced by the pride of a species which believed it has risen to the pinnacle in a gigantic… Read More
Ms. Blavatsky Calls All Energy, Courage and Effort for a Great Intellectual Reform, and Ms. Burnier Complements
“In 1889 Madame Blavatsky made an assessment of her times thus: “Of all the past centuries our nineteenth has been the most criminal. It is criminal in its frightful selfishness, in its skepticism which grimaces at the very idea of anything beyond the material; in its idiotic indifference to all that does not pertain to… Read More